I am tired of the "videos." I understand that the reporters like them because they are so easy to do rather than having to write an article, but often times I just want to read a good article on the subject.

I also cannot watch or listen to the videos for various reasons and so I lose out on the information.

Lastly, is it too much to ask for TP's reporters to have a coat and tie nearby so they can put them on when delivering the web reports? Heck, even a button down shirt with a sport's coat would be professional enough.

Nothing personal, I just think that if someone is going to work in the public's eye, then one should at least look professional.

Unintentionally, this story points out the glaring hypocrisy with college sports. MONEY.

Colleges refuse to pay players and argue that they are getting scholarships (not all and Scholarships were never meant to be quid pro quo) and that is suffice; or that they cannot pay them because they are amateurs.

However, although not stated specifically in this article, what many people don't know is that in addition to Universities being allowed royalties, so too are students. If you are on scholarship at Tulane and you are an engineer or biological engineer and you develop something that the school can sell, then you are entitled to royalties because of your intellectual property.

In other words, students are able to get paid by work they perform while attending college. Yet, when people say football players should receive the same opportunities (royalties from likeness in video games and jersey's etc) the schools backpedal.

But majority of those countries are now basically back into a recession and do you know why? They decided against implementing growth policies during a recession and instead implemented the Republicans' austerity plan and doing so caused those countries to go back into a recession.

They have now realized how bad of a move it was to implement austerity and are now going to implement growth polices to dig themselves out of another recession.

On the other hand, Germany and Austria wisely implemented growth policies and they came out of the recession faster and are now much stronger than their fellow European countries that ignorantly decided to implement deep austerity.

History has always shown that you don't implement deep austerity during a recession. Hoover tried it and it failed. Japan tried it and it failed. And recently those European countries tried it and it failed. Also, the majority of the states that implemented deep austerity had a more sluggish recovery than the majority of the states that did not implement deep austerity.

For example, compare Illinois's economy with Wisconsin. Illinois has a much stronger mfgering sector and overall economy than that of Wisconsin and has been adding tens of thousands of jobs over the past two years while Wisconsin has the worst jobs record in the country.

If the private sector is anemic then you don't cut public sector jobs. 70% of our economy is based on consumer spending. If the private sector is bleeding jobs and paychecks, then you don't also bleed public jobs and more paychecks, because doing so means you have less people with paychecks who can spend to spur the economy.

Also, cutting public jobs while the private sector is in shambles is counterproductive. All you are doing is effectively sending people who lost their jobs in the public sector out to try and find a job in the private sector where there are already four applicants to every job. So basically, you are just sending more people to the unemployment rolls and other government assistance.

Keynesian economics is based on hard economic times. It was never meant to be a long lasting economic plan. But most importantly, it works. It has ALWAYS worked. Keynesian economics used to be universally accepted by everyone, including Republicans. But that was when Republicans simply cared about doing whatever actually gets the economy rolling again and not about opposing anything the other side introduces simply out of spite.

The debt needs to be handled but you can pay down the debt faster with a booming economy than you can from slashing. PLus, the only two fears that come with having large debt, namely, high interest rates and high inflation, are a non-existent problem. The feds have assured us that they are not going to touch interest rate for at least another two years and inflation has remained in tact. So it makes even more sense to implement growth policies over austerity.

Nixon once declared "We are all Keynesians now." The new Republican party has tossed out nearly a century of sound economic policies for policies that have never worked and in fact, caused more harm to the economy (See Hoover).

The stimulus was needed. I think Obama's downfall was not focusing the stimulus entirely on infrastructure jobs. The stimulus was 2/3 tax cuts and tax credits for businesses. It needed to include more money for infrastructure. Infrastructure spending has always been a sure winner to improve the economy during hard times. It has the best multiplier of any other spending. It was also much needed.

But Obama thought that if the stimulus didn't include a large portion pertaining to tax cuts and tax credits then the Republicans wouldn't vote for it. Well, Obama was wrong. The Republicans would have voted against it no matter what. They voted for against it even though 2/3 of it included direct tax cuts and tax credits for businesses.

Jindal said of the President, "the private sector is so foreign to (Obama) that "he might need a translator."That's funny coming from a guy (Jindal) that has spent his entire career in the public sector.

Jindal is a failure. People of this state consider Blanco to be an epic failure, yet there was roughly the same amount of jobs created under Blanco's 4 years as there were under Jindal's 4 years. The difference is that Blanco didn't gut education and healthcare like Jindal did, and we still had pretty much the same number of jobs created under Blanco as under Jindal.

I am not praising Blanco, just pointing out the facts. If you think Blanco was an epic failure and not many can argue she wasn't, then you have to think Jindal has also been an epic failure.

Jindal publicly bashed the stimulus but took stimulus money, not once BUT TWICE in order to fill his budget hole!

Jindal then went around holding ceremonies of himself giving big STIMULUS checks to cities like Lafayette, even though he had publicly denounce the stimulus. I know because I was at the luncheon in Lafayette. (BTW, he bored the entire luncheon and Lafayette is hardcore conservative. He rambled on forever and then said "okay, I have just three last points I am going to say" as he then went on for another hour covering more than 5 additional points.)

Jindal is all for for-profit prisons, even though they have proven over and over again that they cost the taxpayers MORE than public prisons. Private prisons also toss freedom out of the window by putting profits over rights.

Private prisons require the states to maintain full capacity regardless if crime as gone down. Why? Because prisons get paid based on the number of prisoners.

Jindal also signed into legislation new hardcore anti-abortion law that curbs women's rights. While, that may not have much importance in the ignorant South, it would be disastrous on the national scale.

But honestly, I would love to see Jindal picked as the VP just to blow the lid off of the Republicans' already epic hypocrisy.

See Jindal was born to two immigrant parents who are natives of India. And although Jindal was born in the States, he was conceived in India and spent most of his time (6 of the 9 months) in his mother's womb while they were still in India.

Jindal is everything the Tea Party Republicans were raising heck about during the 2008 and 2010 elections.

The Tea Party said that if you are born to two Non-US-citizen parents then you are NOT an American citizen, even if you were born in the States. Jindal meets that criteria.

Also, the Tea Party stated that if you were conceived outside of the States, then you also cannot be an American citizen. Jindal meets that test too. Heck, even McCain met that test, since he was born in Panama, but Republicans let that slide since he was not darker than manila.

Remember, Tea Party people wanted to make a constitutional amendment to change it so that you have to be born in the US to US citizens in order to be an American citizen.”

"Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to become dead soldiers." --George Carlin.

It is true. Mitt Romney dodged the draft. His dad dodged the WWII draft. Mitt's 5 boys didn't enlist either, even though in 2008 Mitt said that the Iraq war was essential to the safety of this country.

Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, GW Bush, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reily, Jon Bolton, Newt Gingrich, Ted Nugent, John Kyl, Mitch McConnell, etc. all Republicans chickenhawks that dodged the draft. They ran away when the country called upon them but now they are all for war and carrying a big stick and sending your kid to war to die so that their defense contracting buddies get rich and they get elected.

We call them chickenhawks. Jon Bolton is the guy that wants to go to war with EVERYONE. Yet, he dodged the draft.

Ted Nugent goes around holding concerts where he holds assault weapons and acts like he is some big bad patriot, BUT did you know that he admitted to dodging the draft in 1969? Yep, like most Republicans warhawks, he too was a freaking chickenhawk pansy.

McCain is as dumb as a box of rocks and his ignorance admittedly likely caused the death of a few of his fellow servicemen but he was no chickenhawk. McCain served his country and although he used nepotism to get into the Naval Academy and into flight school, he didn't use it to get out of fighting for this country like MItt and GW Bush did.

Carlin was right.

BTW, I love how, Jindal and the rest of the people that signed this bill, are basically telling women, "you are too dumb to know if you want an abortion. Therefore, we are going to make you wait X number of hours/days and we are going to make sure the doctor pretty much makes up your mind for you. Why? Because we think you are just ignorant and stupid women and cannot make hard decisions about your own body and so us men will have to do it for you."

That's pretty much what the Republicans around this country are saying with all of these bills removing rights from women.

Conservatives: SMALL GOVERNMENT....EXCEPT when it pertains to the most private aspect of your life. Then we want HUGE GOVERNMENT.

This is what happens when Republicans get in power. Republicans only have three economic plans: 1) Cut taxes on the rich, 2) Deregulate everything, and 3) cut taxes on the rich.

But what happens when the worst recession since the great depression happens during a time when those three policies were already in place? Well, Republicans scream jobs, jobs, jobs, but when they get back in office they just resort to nothing but extreme social policies. That's exactly what has happened since 2010.

Republicans ran on jobs, jobs, jobs, but all they have done around this country and in congress is implement nothing but abortion bills, bills redefining rape to circumvent abortion laws, and more abortion bills.

In 2011 alone, Republicans have enacted over 80 anti-abortion bills. Since 1985, the most enacted ant-abortion bills in one given year was around 38. In 2011, the GOP hit 80+ (Obliterating the old record).

Yet, not a single jobs bill in all of 2010 and 2011.

If Republicans cared about our country they would respect the fact that Roe v. Wade is the law of the land.

Also, it is counterproductive for Republicans to want to abolish abortion but at the same time want to make contraception illegal or extremely hard to obtain. Oh and don't forget how Republicans also refuse to allow sexual education in schools which happens to help lower teen pregnancies.

In fact, states with abstinence only polices have the highest rate of teen pregnancies. It is also worth nothing that the South (deeply Red) has the highest divorce rates in the country.

JJ is HORRIBLE. I had one in Michigan and then they opened one recently in Lafayette and I tried it again. It still taste bad. I am not sure how much longer the one in Lafayette will be open, it never has people in there.

I would rank JJ far below subway or quiznos. Even my gf was like this is horrible.

I would rather they put another Pita Pit there or anything else that is eatable.

She is pretty, although she does have a forehead like a drive-in movie theatre.

It is also nice to see that country music is embracing hip-hop and pop, because let's face it, that's basically what country music is nowadays. I am not knocking it because I really, really, dislike old country music. I dislike it almost as much as I dislike Moby's music.

Reid what do you think about Fab Melo, the center from the Cuse? I saw him play a few times and he looked really good. He seems more agressive than all other shot blockers coming out. He is also a young true center. Where do you see him going?

It cut off the top part of the post. It reads that La has the highest gun ownership per capita and also the highest gun deaths per capita. The states with the highest gun ownership per capita are also on the list for the states with the highest gun deaths per capita.

While the states with the lowest gun ownership per capita happen to also be on the list for the states with the lowest gun deaths per capita.

More guns do not equal safer states or cities.

The Mexican cartel admitted that they come to America to get their guns because it is so easy to do.

I guess being that the South is pretty much last in anything good, it makes since to return it to the Wild Wild West.

Ye-Haw!

I don't want to take away someone's shotgun or rifle, but I don't want a mentally unstable person getting a gun. I don't want a person with a violent past getting a gun. I don't want someone with a felony record getting a gun. I don't want people bringing guns to parks or campuses or the like.

Last thing: people need to understand that the NRA doesn't give a HOOT about the principle of you being allowed to own a gun. The NRA's main priority rest with the gun mfers. The more guns allowed and the less restrictions then the more money gun mfers make.